Primary results won't get 2nd look

Primary election results throughout the state will not go through additional reviews.

Only the race for the Republican nomination in Senate District 24 qualified for a recount, which can only happen if the vote difference is one vote per precinct or less, state election officials said.

Challenger Darin Peterson, who lost to incumbent Sen. Leonard Blackham, R-Moroni, by 58 votes after absentee ballots were counted in the 89-precinct district, has decided not to ask for a second look at the ballots.

Other legislative races that were tight but fell outside of the qualifying spread for candidates to request a recount were in the Democratic primary for Senate District 1, where Fred Fife defeated Pasa Tukufua for the right to challenge Sen. James Evans, R-Salt Lake; and the Republican primary in House District 5, where Scott Wyatt defeated Rep. Curt Webb, R-Providence.

Both races had approximately a two-vote-per-precinct difference.